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Instructions for Christian Households

Colossians 3:18-25 New International Version (NKJV)

18 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them. 20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing to the Lord.

21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged. 22 Bondservants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing God. 23 And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for[a] you serve the Lord Christ. 25 But he who does wrong will be repaid for what he has done, and there is no partiality.

Ephesians 5:22  “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.”

The apostle proceeds from those duties which related to them as church members one towards another, for their mutual good and edification, and the glory of God, to such as concerned them in their own houses and families, as in a natural relation to each other; as husbands and wives, parents and children, masters and servants; showing hereby, that the Gospel of Christ establishes the duties of common and civil life, contrary to popular belief.

Wives submit to your husbands---as it is fit in the Lord; Subjection of wives to their own husbands is "fit" and proper in its own nature, by reason of the original creation of man, and of the woman from him: man was made first, and then the woman; and the woman was made out of the man, out of one of his ribs; and so, though not to be trampled under his feet, but to be by his side, and an help meet to him, yet not to be head, or to rule over him. Moreover, the woman was made for the man, and not the man for the woman; add to this, that the woman was in the transgression, and the means of the fall of man, which made the obligation to subjection to him the stronger: and it is also a "decent" and becoming thing for wives to be subject to their husbands; for as it is giving honor to them.

There are three governments that are Biblical on this earth: civil government, church government and family government.

In every family there should be a head - someone who is to be looked up to as the counselor and the ruler; someone to whom all should be subordinate. God has given that prerogative to man; and no family prospers where that arrangement is violated. 

The Gospel on the one hand recognizes and secures woman’s perfect spiritual equality with man, on the other hand recognizes and secures man’s responsible leadership.

Ladies, we are equals under the Lord, in our spiritual gifts and anointings, in salvation, in our work for Him; but in the house we are subject to our husbands as unto the Lord. God sees our submission to our husband as an obedience to Christ. Submission is yielding to my husband’s authority in love.

Proverbs 14:1 14 The wise woman builds her house, But the foolish pulls it down with her hands.

Proverbs 21:9 New King James Version (NKJV)

9 Better to dwell in a corner of a housetop, Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.

Proverbs 12:4 New King James Version (NKJV)

4 An[a] excellent wife is the crown of her husband, But she who causes shame is like rottenness in his bones.

What does submission look like? It is obeying when you do not want to. EX: I want red hair.